When I shut down my system or log out the terminal (the one I reach with Ctrl Alt + F7) is sometimes shown before the login screen appears or before the computer is shut down. Is there a way to stop this behavior?
More explicitly the terminal is shown instead of the splash screen. If I logout the terminal is sometimes shown for a second before the login screen appears. Also, sometimes when I shutdown (from within Unity or Gnome) the terminal is shown instead of the splash screen, sometimes for the whole shutdown process or just for a second or two.
I've had this problem throughout 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 and I've always used the standard Ubuntu variant. I've also noticed this happening on a fresh install of Natty on a friends netbook, so it's not local to my computers.
Best Answer
The screen you see is because the xorg server is being shut down and reloaded (in the case of logging off) and shut down for good in the case of shutting down. there isn't really any technical problem, it's just how the system works at the moment.
Perhaps it will improve with wayland.